The Archive · 1928

Our Paris Letter

Amazing Case of the Bluebeard of Marseilles: 1,009,000 Franco A Financer's Little Joke The story of the new "Bluebeard" just disclosed to the French public begins in a small villa in the out-serving a life sentence, Li they desperate Sundays work, their evenings must 32

interminable, Org: us exist On leaving England MMe Hu and ts of Marseilles, owned by for the protection of girls and the Mr. Sun issued he following farewell plump spinster of mature age, Mil sheltering of old age, but there Face. She accepted as boarder, or is nothing for the lonely, middle-part tenant, a certain Int. Gaillard, aged woman. She cannot go into a "The present position of China is a burly man about 60 years of age, cafe without attracting attention, one which must be most interesting not very refined in his manners but and she is tolerated in restaurants to the English people. Their own. seemingly placid and not only on condition that she neither history is composed of a series of to marry again, The lingers nor looks at the other t, struggles for freedom against forhhis fancy, and he opened negotia-customers eign aggression and domestic incomtions for its. burch BL. Georges Heine, who died ab-potence. This gives weight to our statement of aims, given herewith in How far these pourparlers pro-out a fortnight ago, provided a

accordance with the wishes of the ceeded is not known, but one ebeasthumous shock of an unpleasant,

Press Representatives. ing neighbours heard a loud shriek. kind for his nephew and niece, the "We are not in England primarily Silence followed, and no one made Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld. Due de Richelieu and Comtesse ish ourselves in a position inquiries, but next day Mile. Food was found dead with a piece of Heine was a very important person wire round her throat. She had in the French financial world, are representatives of China. been killed, not by the wire but He wus one of the directors of are anxious to dispel for ever the by the pressure of two powerfal the Bank of France, he was idea that our Party is a mere small hands on for neck, M. Gaillard was cerned in sunday large oper faction in China, We are also not to be found. The police went oil, and heaped up a respectable anxious to dispel the idea that we are to another villa occupied by him up number of millions, He was always a weak or dubious po to about a week before he joined fon the best of terms with his ne-"We represent the will of out peo-Mile. Foeé, and there they found phew and niece—the children of hin ple for a new and better age in our} buried in the chicken house, the body sister, the late Princess of Monaco, history. We are not any longer a of another woman,—subsequent! whose first husband was the Duc party in opposition to the Northern identified as a Mile. Ohel, a midalo. de Richelieu and they naturally ex-Militarists; we are the represent-aged spinster who kept a sin pected that they would inherit his atives of China, We are their reboarding house at Draguignan and hoy being, so far as they Dresentatives because "we have fairly well oft. fought for over 40 years on their be-'After the funeral, which was ear. The police also noticed that the half against those of our own) floor of the cellar had been recently ried out'in a style appropriate to nationality\who desired only personal coated with eenifnt. They broke AM. Heine's position, they communifaggrandisement at the public ex-cated with his lawyers and up with pickaxes and discovered pense, and most of our foreign another body. that of a domestic covered, to their great amazement, Hours' and guests who have misused that theft uncle had two children servant named Bonnet, A third the privileges won from us by the lence of M. Gaillard at Mar-of whom they had never heard, sword and gun, to hold us in per rehed and hundreds 'These children, the fruit of a youth. Petal 'Political and' veono Yitude, "Te is not our inten of letters in feminine handwriting ful passion, were born out of

{hese political and economic. bonds were found. They made it clear lock but were formally recognized should' hold any longer. As Dr. that M. Gaillard had been inserting.

Heine and were therefore in matrimonial advertisements in the 2 position to claim the large shares Sum Yat-sen, wrote. in his great! book. 'The Triple Doctrine of the Jocal newspapers, and that he hail which, under French Inw, go. to People,' in which he set forth the been operating on lines similar direct' offspring, no matter. what policy and aims of our Party those adopted by the late M. Dé- may be the will ire Landra, except that he buried The disappointed nephew and ta mare dorrste then many: millions til you, thole eonomie oppression is victims instead of burning them. niece at first thought of opposing coming to Arrested a few days later on he claims of their new cousins, set, oe thas Seated he pave hie real name, landing from the steamer at Algiers, Prerre Rey, (®2 leg to stand on, and they but were advised that they had had to a the best of a bad Job. [The Due de icheliow inherits noth ing but an ancestral castle, which He has now been brought back "It is therefore our fixed purpose Marseilles, will probably prove a white ele-to see our people on terms of equalphant, and his sister a suite of ity with the great nations of the

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